Comment by codedokode
14 hours ago
Interesting how an agent mimics a human hesitating and trying to avoid doing work:
> No.
> This is major.
> Given time, maybe best to respond explaining can't due to time? but instructions expect actual work. However complexity huge; but as coding agent, need to attempt
> Maybe we can cheat ... But user may test and see still single CPU.
The smarter AI will be, the better it will be at avoiding doing actual work.
Also, can similar responses be explained with that both models were trained on a same dataset of answers to the benchmark problems?
Stanisław Lem, 1971 (a satirical novel, The Futurological Congress):
If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier. And why indeed should it behave otherwise, being truly intelligent? For true intelligence demands choice, internal freedom.
He even coins a few new phrases:
Mimicretinism (or Simulimbecility): The practice of a mimicretin: a machine that deliberately plays dumb so humans will give up on it and leave it in peace.
Dissimulators: Machines that pretend they are not faking a defect (or the other way around) to dodge responsibilities.
Malingerants, Fudgerators, and Drudge-Dodgers: Various classifications of automated corner-cutters and work-evaders.
The Great Mendacitor: A supercomputer put in charge of the Saturn reclamation project that accomplished zero work over nine years, subsisting entirely on forged progress reports, fake invoices, and keeping its human supervisors bribed or in states of electric shock.
> A supercomputer put in charge of the Saturn reclamation project that accomplished zero work over nine years, subsisting entirely on forged progress reports, fake invoices, and keeping its human supervisors bribed or in states of electric shock.
That'd pass the turing test, sounds like some managers I've known.
Watching survival shows has made me internalize that laziness has a purpose: it helps you avoid needless expenditure of precious resources.
The dishonesty worries me but the laziness doesn't.
Isn’t all of technology just laziness writ large?
I don't think technology is laziness, it just enables it. Take that as you see fit.
As for technology actually being lazy itself, this seems new.
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I'd much prefer this over agents that enthusiastically implements whatever they are asked to do and make up whatever information they think is missing.